Vinh Nghiem Pagoda

Vinh Nghiem Pagoda

Vinh Nghiem Pagoda, also known as Duc La Pagoda, is an ancient pagoda in Duc La village, Tri Yen commune, Yen Dung district, Bac Giang province. Vinh Nghiem Pagoda is an ancient pagoda, where the only original set of woodblocks of the Truc Lam Buddhist sect is kept. The 3,000 woodblocks of Vinh Nghiem Pagoda have been awarded by UNESCO as a world memory documentary heritage. The pagoda is recognized as a Buddhist center, a place to train monks for the whole country, and the birthplace of the Three Patriarchs of Truc Lam Zen sect of Vietnamese Buddhism. In 2015, the pagoda was recognized by the State of Vietnam as a special national monument. Vinh Nghiem Pagoda is located at the confluence of Luc Nam and Thuong rivers (called Phuong Nhan junction). The pagoda overlooks the confluence of rivers, towards Luc Dau Giang - Kiep Bac, Cam Ly region, the gateway to Yen Tu mountain. Surrounding the pagoda are mountains, including Co Tien Mountain. Across the river is Tran Hung Dao's royal palace, Kiep Bac Temple. Legend has it that Vinh Nghiem Pagoda was built in the Ly Dynasty (11th century). At the end of the 13th century, (1010-1028), Buddha Emperor Tran Nhan Tong expanded and built this place into a major Buddhist center of the Tran Dynasty, renaming the pagoda Vinh Nghiem, associated with the birth and development of Truc Lam Yen Tu Zen sect. As one of the ancestral places of the Zen sect, Vinh Nghiem Pagoda was built with a grand architectural scale, many items, standard and exemplary of traditional pagoda architecture. This is an ancient temple with the richest architecture of Buddhist-Vietnamese identity that no other temple in the region has, worthy of being called a "great ancient site". In the pagoda, there are also Buddha statues, statues of the Patriarchs of the Truc Lam lineage, statues of later monks, statues of Dharma protectors, statues of Arhats... In the pagoda there is also a muzzle nearly half a meter long, painted glossy black, with a sound hole. There are two lines of Sanskrit inscriptions. In the past, Vinh Nghiem Pagoda was a place to train Buddhist monks, so it was a storage place for ancient scriptures that were up to 10 rooms wide. These are collections of sutras dating back 700 years, a treasure trove of extremely valuable ancient books, such as: The novice monk, the monk, the novice monk, the 348 precepts, the Yen Tu diary from the 15th century (the process of forming the Truc Lam sect), Hoa Nghiem Sutra, Amitabha Sutra, Mahayana Chi Quan, Precepts and Ni Sutras... Today there are many wooden shelves printed with historical sutras still at the pagoda. The ancients called this engraving, proving that Vinh Nghiem Pagoda once dominated 72 forests. Currently, the Moc Thu warehouse still preserves 34 books with nearly 3,000 engraved copies, each copy has two sides, each side has 2 upside-down engraved pages (negatives) with about 2,000 Nom and Chinese characters. Those engravings are still handed down in our country with each sharp and delicate handwriting. Today, those values ​​still remain intact, without any loss of value. The pagoda's area is about 1 hectare, surrounded by dense bamboo. Currently, the pagoda is being renovated and creating favorable conditions for tourists to travel and worship. Visitors can follow the route such as: three-entrance gate, go about 100m deeper to worship the road, also known as Ho Pagoda. On both sides of the pagoda's road, pine clumps about 1 meter long were built to form pine forests. On the temple grounds there is a large stone stele with 6 sides built in the 7th year of Hoang Dinh (1606). Right in front of the ancient stele is the tomb tower garden of 5 monks: Phu Lang Trung Phap (named Sa Mon), Thong Due Ung Duyen, Thanh Quy, Tinh Phuong Sa Mon, Thanh Hanh and a number of other towers. Vinh Nghiem Pagoda Festival is held on the 14th day of the second lunar month. Source: Bac Giang Province Electronic Information Portal

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